Bug 2364708 (CVE-2020-36791)

Summary: CVE-2020-36791 kernel: net_sched: keep alloc_hash updated after hash allocation
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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A possible out-of-bounds access was found in the Linux kernel in net_sched. This may result in unstable availability.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-07 14:01:22 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net_sched: keep alloc_hash updated after hash allocation

In commit 599be01ee567 ("net_sched: fix an OOB access in cls_tcindex")
I moved cp->hash calculation before the first
tcindex_alloc_perfect_hash(), but cp->alloc_hash is left untouched.
This difference could lead to another out of bound access.

cp->alloc_hash should always be the size allocated, we should
update it after this tcindex_alloc_perfect_hash().